Peer Productions make plays and change lives. We work with young people, including those hardest to reach, to engage them in creative projects which have a positive impact on participants and audiences. We train young creatives (aged 17 - 23) as actors and peer educators, empowering them to deliver a series of high quality community arts projects. We take our work to a wide variety of settings including schools, colleges, youth clubs, pupil referral units and prisons in Surrey and beyond.

Why the community needs us

We believe that our work is a powerful tool which can make a difference with even the most difficult to reach young people. We work with disadvantaged groups using their true stories to create theatre and film to educate other young people. Groups we have worked with include gay and lesbian teenagers, excluded young people, young offenders, disabled young people, learning disabled young people, older people, young Muslim men, adults with mental health issues, and teenage parents.

Our impact on the community

Our work empowers young people to bring about positive social change in their local community and gives them the skills necessary to continue to make changes in the future. Young people report increased skills, confidence and knowledge enabling them to move on to further education or paid work.'The Teenage Pregnancy Project made me think more because I did want to be a teenage mum but listening to/watching this play has made me think differently.' - Year 10 pupil Wavell School, Hampshire